Jimmie Foxx Stats

Presented in this article are Jimmie Foxx’s real baseball stats per official at bat. How many runs, RBI’s and home runs (HR’s) did Double X get per official at bat? Presenting the stats in this manner is meant to give you a clearer picture of what on average Jimmie Foxx accomplished for each official at bat he had in the major leagues.

How are the stats calculated out? Simply by dividing each stat listed by official at bats. Just like you do with hits for batting average. Here we are dividing total runs scored by total official at bats to get a player’s run average, total RBI’s by total official at bats for a player’s RBI average and total HR’s by total official at bats for a player’s HR average. For example: if a player has scored 1,000 runs in 5,000 official at bats his run average would be .200. If the player had 900 RBI’s his RBI average would be .180. And if he had 200 HR’s his HR average would be .040. So on average this player would have scored a run 20% of the time, driven in a run 18% of the time and hit a HR 4% of the time he recorded an official at bat in the major leagues.

Obviously the higher the averages the better the player was. Here is a rough guide to determine how a players averages stack up.

Run Average and RBI Average – anything over .150 is good. Anything above .200 is excellent, and the very best players in history have occasionally gone over .300 in some seasons.

HR Average – anything over .055 is good. Anything above .065 is really good and anything above .075 means one of the best HR hitters of all time.

Here are Jimmie Foxx’s raw numbers (AB’s/runs/RBI’s/HR’s) 9456/1859/511/1860.

Jimmie Foxx’s Career Numbers

Run Average – .197

RBI Average – .197

HR Average – .054

So on average Jimmie Foxx scored a run 19.7% of the time, drove in a run 19.7% of the time and hit a HR 5.4% of the time he stepped up to the plate and had an official at bat in the major leagues.

Jimmie Foxx was primarily a first baseman and played in the major leagues for 20 years. He was just 17 years old when he made his major league debut in 1925 for the Philadelphia Athletics. He played 11 years for the A’s (1925-1935), 7 years with the Boston Red Sox (1936-1942), parts of two years with the Chicago Cubs (1942 and 1944) and finished his career with a brief stay with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945.

Foxx was nicknamed the Beast and was a tremendous power hitter in his career. He hit 534 home runs and was considered second to only Babe Ruth as a power hitter during his career.  He won 3 MVP Awards (1932-1933 and 1938), won the American League Triple Crown in 1933, led the league 4 times in home runs (!932-1933, 1935 and 1938) and won 2 batting titles (1933 and 1938). Jimmie Foxx was a member of the great Philadelphia A’s teams of 1929-1931 that went a combined 313-143 (.686) and made the World Series all 3 years and won twice (1929-1930). Those A’s teams had Hall of Famers Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons and Jimmie Foxx and were the main reason the Yankees of Ruth and Gehrig did not win more World Series.

Over his career and particularly later in his career many players reported seeing Foxx playing with a flask in the back pocket of his uniform from which he would take a sip from time to time. Tom Hanks character Jimmy Duggan in the movie “A League of Their Own” is loosely based upon Jimmie Foxx.

Jimmie Foxx was elected by the baseball writers and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1951.